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...publicity picture. But Nick also had the squad's best scholastic record and liked to listen by the hour to classical operatic recordings. Planing to and from games, he would entertain his teammates by braying in a gravelly baritone the brokenhearted clown's famous lament from I Pagliacci...
...Even Money. A small touring opera company came to Spokane that spring. Pat got a job in the chorus for the performances of Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci and Carmen. The San Carlo Opera Company also came to town that year, and Pat and a friend named Mary Jo Williams heard Madame Butterfly. Pat solemnly bet her girl friend 15? she would some day sing at the Met (she has never collected...
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Richard Tucker, tenor; Lucine Amara, soprano; Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). More proof that Met performances are usually better to listen to than to look at-and that Richard Tucker is one of the notable tenors...
...Cover) It was the emotion-packed end of Act I of Pagliacci, and the clown's heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered den of Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza's Beverly Hills home. An exuberant young man with the face of a choir boy and the frame of a prize bull let the vibrations pour over him until he could stand it no longer. His bright black eyes glistened. "Oo, Mario," he cooed lovingly, "you can sing like a sonofabitch ! " Both the voice...
Since his first postwar show in 1949, Pagliacci's work has climbed steadily on the bestseller lists. His paintings, marked by skilled draftsmanship and dramatic coloring, have had a particular vogue with U.S. collectors, among them Nelson Rockefeller and Cinemactor Clifton Webb. Last week Pagliacci, who knows a good thing when he sees it, was hard at work burning up two more Roman churches with pigment and canvas...